Zo

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Peak · girls
2017 · 40 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
310
since 1957

Zo over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank200020102020peak #3,769, 2017peak #5,633, 2022girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it. Not on the chart: 6 girls in 1957 (see the data table).

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#13,2086#9,7147
2024#11,1228#12,3495
2023#6,92216#5,66616
2022#5,02826#5,63316
2021#5,09125#9,7147
2020#3,84137#7,50210
2019#4,16234#8,2159
2018#5,00726#10,7606
2017#3,76940#8,1409
2016#6,66318#10,7446
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2014#9,51711#12,1085
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2012#10,42910—
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2010#14,9596—
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First appearance
1957

The first year at least five girls were named Zo! It came in at #5,377, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1958–2003, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Zo is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Zo in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zo
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 9,367 spots since 2020 (#3,841 → #13,208)
Rise & fade · girls
60 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1957
  • Peaked 2017 at #3,769 (40 births)
  • Births halved by 2023, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 43,162
  • Highest: 1 in 43,162 girls born in 2017 were named Zo (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 55.8% of all girls named Zo (173) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2025
  • Mostly girls until 2024, mostly boys since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s6#5,377 (1957)#5,377
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2000s13#13,010 (2005)#13,595
2010s173#3,769 (2017)#8,931
2020s118#3,841 (2020)#7,535

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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